Home Services Aide

Job Description:

Location: Home Services Millard County area – Fillmore, Utah

 Department/Unit: Home Services - Home Health & Hospice

Shifts: PRN | As Needed hours/week | 8-hour shifts

Schedule: One Day shift per week, no late evenings, nights, weekends or holidays

Pay: Starting at $ based on experience)

Benefits: Not eligible

*Mileage Reimbursement

*Flexible Schedule

*Can pick-up more shifts in available

What does it mean to be a part of our Home Health Services team?

Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Home Health is privileged to be the caring hands in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Home Health allows patients to be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing this unique and highly rewarding care environment.  

Essential Functions

• Performs bowel and bladder care which includes bladder irrigation, bowel stimulation as well as digital stool removal. As delegated by RN, can assist patients in self-administering medications and assists with simple wound care as well as ostomy care. Assists patients during end-of-life care as well as medically complex patients who require additional support (quadriplegic, paraplegic etc.) who are typically unable to assist with their ADL's and are dependent on our teams for their personal care.
• Coordinates patient schedule with appropriate staff, patients/family members and makes assigned visits on time.
• Keeps an accurate record of time and mileage.
• Maintains accessibility during assigned schedule.
• Follows aide delegation plan, performs assigned duties within scope of practice, and performs specialized procedures with skill validation and according to regulatory standards.
• Fosters a safe environment by complying with safety policies (i.e., infection control, lifting & transferring, disasters, etc.).
• Takes appropriate action in an emergency.
• Effectively communicates to the patient what care is being given.
• Reports significant care concerns / safe environment issues to the Case Manager/Agency before leaving the home OR other general care concerns before completing the shift.
• Observes, reports, and records (point of care charting) the response to the treatment plan.

Skills  

• Patient Care 
• Certified Nursing Assistant
• Teamwork 
• Computer Literacy 
• Communication 
• Patient Care Delivery 
• Personal Hygiene 
• Safe Patient Handling 
• Vital Signs 
• Specimen Collection 

Minimum Qualifications

• Current Nursing Assistant Certification (CNA) in the state of practice.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Must be 18 years or older.
• Current driver's license, insurance, reliable transportation, and an acceptable driving record.
• Demonstrated basic computer literacy skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

At the time of hire, Utah candidates must meet one of the following certification requirements:

• Certified Nursing Assistant Certification in the state of Utah.
  • If CNA certificate is expired, must be renewed
• Completion of a recent Certified Nursing Assistant Training Program.
  • Verification of CNA program completion is required (program must have been completed within the past year).
  • CNA certification must be obtained within 120 days of hire.
• Completion of a Fundamentals of Nursing Course.
  • Must have earned a passing grade within the past two (2) years. Official transcript is required.
  • CNA certification must be obtained within 120 days of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a CNA or other applicable healthcare experience.
• Experience working in home health or hospice.
•  Homecare Aide bowel and bladder care experience

Physical Requirements:

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to